Utility functions

2.
(جصّص)

جصّصHe plastered a building withجِصّ[or gypsum]: (Mgh, Ḳ:) or he made a house therewith:(Mṣb:)i. q.قَصَّصَ, (Ṣ, TA,) which is of the dial. of El-Ḥijáz. (TA.)

جِصٌّ

جِصٌّ(Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and جَصٌّ(Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ,) but the former is the more chaste: (TA, from an Expos. of the Fṣ:) the latter is disapproved by IDrd, and disallowed by ISk; (TA;) and it is said in the Bári', on the authority of AḤát, that the latter is the form used by the vulgar, and the former is that which is correct: (Mṣb:)[Gypsum; a certain substance]with which one builds,(Ṣ,) or plasters;(Mgh;)well known:(Mṣb, Ḳ:) arabicized; (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ;) because ج and Ṣ do not occur in any Arabic word; (Mṣb;) or, accord. to AZ, there are some [Arabic] words in which they both occur, as has been mentioned in art. اجص: from كَجْ(Mgh, Ḳ, [in the CK كَْۜ]) or, as some say, غَْۜ; which are Persian: (TA:) in the dial. of the people of El-Ḥijáz, قصّ[i. e.قِصٌّ or قَصٌّ]. (Lth, TA.)[The n. un. is with ة: see art. قص.]